Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: remove fbdev drivers

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:03:10AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>> Since the fbdev framework is in maintenance mode and all new display drivers
>>> should be made with the DRM framework, remove the fbdev drivers from staging.
>>>
>>> Note: the patches are created with git format-patch -D, so they can't be
>>> applied. Only for review.
>>
>> +1 from my side. Now that we have the simple pipe helpers in drm-kms, and
>> a few drivers starting to use them, there's really no reasons left anymore
>> to have fbdev drivers.
>
> I haven't been following this that closely, so can you please point me to a
> sample DRM driver using this simple pipe helper?

Bummer, they still haven't landed. But afaik there's at least 4 of
them floating around in various places ...
-Daniel
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